Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.